ALVY     
There's an old joke.  Uh, two elderly 
women are at a Catskills mountain 
resort, and one of 'em says: "Boy, the 
food at this place is really terrible." 
The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and 
such ... small portions." Well, that's 
essentially how I feel about life.  Full 
of loneliness and misery and suffering 
and unhappiness, and it's all over much 
too quickly.  The-the other important 
joke for me is one that's, uh, usually 
attributed to Groucho Marx, but I think 
it appears originally in Freud's wit and 
its relation to the unconscious.  And it 
goes like this-I'm paraphrasing: Uh ... 
"I would never wanna belong to any club 
that would have someone like me for a 
member." That's the key joke of my adult 
life in terms of my relationships with 
women.  Tsch, you know, lately the 
strangest things have been going 
through my mind, 'cause I turned forty, 
tsch, and I guess I'm going through a 
life crisis or something, I don't know. 
I, uh ... and I'm not worried about aging.  
I'm not one o' those characters, you know. 
Although I'm balding slightly on top, that's 
about the worst you can say about me.  I, 
uh, I think I'm gonna get better as I get 
older, you know?  I think I'm gonna be the-
the balding virile type, you know, as 
opposed to say the, uh, distinguished 
gray, for instance, you know?  'Less I'm 
neither o' those two. Unless I'm one o' 
those guys with saliva dribbling out of 
his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria 
with a shopping bag screaming about 
socialism. 
(Sighing) 
Annie and I broke up and I-I still can't 
get my mind around that.  You know, I-I 
keep sifting the pieces of the relationship 
through my mind and-and examining my life 
and tryin' to figure out where did the 
screw-up come, you know, and a year ago we 
were... tsch, in love.  You know, and-and-and 
... And it's funny, I'm not-I'm not a 
morose type.  I'm not a depressive character.  
I-I-I, uh, 
(Laughing) 
you know, I was a reasonably happy kid, 
I guess.  I was brought up in Brooklyn 
during World War II.
 
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